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World Book Club: Chan Koonchung - The Fat Years

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Chan Koonchung

02/12/2018 GMT

Chan Koonchung - The Fat Years

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Chan Koonchung - The Fat Years

Chan Koonchung joins the World Book Club to discuss his dystopian novel The Fat Years

Chan Koonchung joins the World Book Club to discuss his dystopian novel The Fat Years.

This month's World Book Club once again comes from China's capital Beijing. Lawrence Pollard interviews acclaimed and controversial writer Chan Koonchung about his much debated dystopian novel The Fat Years from a buzzy local bookstore in the city centre, filled with an audience of excited readers ready with their questions for the author.

Chan’s speculative fiction, The Fat Years, has been described as giddily daring. It imagines a time in the near future where China is the world’s dominant power and all Chinese are beamingly happy, all but our heroes who come to realise that a month has gone missing from history. No-one remembers it, no-one cares, so they set out to find it. The Fat Years has never been officially published in mainland China but has quite a reputation. Listen in and find out why.

(Photo credit: Colin McPherson/Corbis/Getty Images.)

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